Large scale healthcare services M&A has been mostly on hold in Europe for almost three years now. Despite all the economic and geopolitical uncertainty the world is currently facing, 2025 will probably see more activity.
At last year’s conference Hedley Goldberg, Managing Director at multinational investment bank Rothschild, predicted healthcare M&A activity would begin picking up again in Q4 2023 or Q1 2024. But we’re now halfway through 2024 and there are still very few deals above €500m taking place. Goldberg is confident, however, that we have now passed through the bottom of the cycle.
With a workforce on its knees, it is little surprise that the prospect of ‘care as a career' is becoming an increasingly difficult reality. HBI speaks to UK mental health and social care provider Priory’s CEO Rebekah Cresswell about the government’s latest reforms, and how staff retention can be improved even when times are tough.
Waterland-owned Germany and UK rehabilitation and mental health specialist Median has expanded into a third major market with the acquisition of Hestia Alliance in Spain. HBI asks "why Spain?"
As the world faces a mental health crisis, a panel at HBI 2023 discussed the impact telehealth and digital therapeutics have on the sector. But with growing demand and a lack of capacity, to what extent can a crisis of global proportions be tackled?
Our annual conference took place earlier this week in London. Over a jam-packed three days of HBI 2023, an impressive array of delegates from across Europe and beyond gathered in the heart of London and shared their insights into the myriad challenges and abundant opportunities the sector faces, and offered their views on how some of them might be addressed. Here are some of our key takeaways.
South Africa's parliament has voted for a new health insurance bill which will pave the way towards universal healthcare – at the expense of private care.
The slump in healthcare listed stocks and downward valuations of private businesses are encouraging potential buyers to examine enticing European healthcare enterprises.
Ambea Group, a major quoted Scandinavian care provider, has been actively buying social care companies in Denmark. We look at why Ambea has been buying in a country which has a history of hostility to for-profit health care and now has a leftist, Social Democrat government.
UK-based mental health and specialist residential adult care group Priory has postponed syndication of a planned €800m refinancing. The move comes ahead of a seemingly unconnected broadcast of an investigation into one or more of the group's facilities, and the announcement of a new UK CEO.
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